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When the ‘candidate of the people’ shtick doesn’t work

03/04/13 03:40 PMUpdated 10/02/13 10:03 PM

When the 'candidate of the people' shtick doesn't work

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Campaigning is already well underway in Massachusetts, which will hold its Senate special election primaries next month, before the June 25 general election. With this in mind, there was a Republican straw poll held over the weekend, which state Rep. Dan Winslow won.

There was, however, a question about the event’s location: Republicans gathered at a yacht club in the state’s Northeast corner.

Winslow … said he thought the event sent the wrong message.

“They gave us three minutes to speak today; three minutes is longer than I ever wanted to spend in a yacht club,” Winslow said. “I am not a tea and crumpets Republican.”